The Delaware State University Sustainable Community Project
Project will utilize parenting education through food safety, physical activity and gardening activities. Childhood overweight and obesity and proper nutrition will also be targeted to provide healthy living alternatives.

This CYFAR Sustainable Community Project brings together three common community education genres--fatherhood education, nutrition education, and youth development education--into a single family life education program delivered to fathers and their early adolescent youth (age 11 to 13) in the context of food grilling.

Increased self-efficacy, enhanced workforce readiness and goal-setting skills, improved teen/adult and peer-to-peer relationships, and a deeper understanding on the part of teens of the vital role agriculture plays in their urban economy and environment.

Date award was granted (first year):

September, 2014

Brief Site Description:

Project GROWL (Growing Real Opportunities for Work and Life in Agriculture) supports teen decision-making and empowerment at all levels of the program and actively encourages youth-adult partnerships as a key component of the learning process. Teens will meet once a week during the school year, after school.

The purpose of this grant is to provide educational programs for fathers/father figures and their families. The audience to be reached is fathers/father figures ages 18 and up in Todd (western) and Wolfe (eastern) counties. Todd County has 61% of its children on free and reduced lunch (185% of poverty) and Wolfe County has 78% (Kids Count, 2011).

The URI CYFAR proposal, Integrating Nutrition Education into Full Services Community Schools in Providence, focuses on students and parents, encouraging low-income children and their parents to adopt healthy eating behaviors so as to reduce obesity risk and result in better health across the lifespan.

The Science Pathways Program is a high context leadership development program to be implemented in the cities of Paterson and Trenton that is centered on the operation of a Makerspace and Makerspace activities. In this way Makerspace is a conduit for personal development and science literacy.